[1] “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? [2] Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? [3] Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? [4] Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? [5] Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house? [6] Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? [7] Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? [8] If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! [9] Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. [10] No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? [11] Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
